tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:/discussions/problems/1206-gem-ownership-ruby-openid-openidRubyGems.org: Discussion 2012-06-29T13:25:46Ztag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/169755772012-06-29T12:18:08Z2012-06-29T12:18:09ZGem ownership: ruby-openid / openid<div><p>Hello,</p>
<p>last week I took up the maintainership of the ruby-openid gem
and fixed some things, accepted pull requests and build a new
version. Now would be the time to publish a new version of the gem.
I tried to reach out to the people that are listed as owners on
RubyGems.org, but unfortunately none of them replied and/or their
email addresses did not exist anymore. The last push of that gem
has been two years ago and I would really like to publish a new
version.</p>
<p>The next thing I tried was writing an email to the guy who owns
the openid gem, but his mail address doesn't exist anymore,
too.</p>
<p>How can we go on from here?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance and have a nice weekend,<br>
Dennis</p></div>dennisreimanntag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/169755772012-06-29T12:42:58Z2012-06-29T12:44:10ZGem ownership: ruby-openid / openid<div><p>Hi Dennis,</p>
<p>There are three people with ownership access to the gem, have
you attempted to contact all of them? See the gem page: <a href=
"http://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-openid">http://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-openid</a></p>
<p>Transferring ownership is something that is very hard for gem
distributors to do without permission from someone who already has
admin access to a project, because it can lead to all kinds of
complicated personal conflicts. That's why in most cases if an
original maintainer cannot be contacted, we'd recommend renaming
the gem and releasing under the new name.</p></div>Gregory Browntag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/169755772012-06-29T13:01:52Z2012-06-29T13:01:52ZGem ownership: ruby-openid / openid<div><p>Hey Gregory, thanks for the fast answer! Like I said I tried to
reach them, but did not receive a reply. For me it would be fine,
if you could grant me push access to the gem - you would not have
to remove anyone of them.</p></div>dennisreimanntag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/169755772012-06-29T13:24:18Z2012-06-29T13:24:18ZGem ownership: ruby-openid / openid<div><p>Hi Dennis,</p>
<p>Please try again to reach them. It's unlikely that we'd be able
to give you access to the gem without their permission, so if
you're unable to reach them, I'd recommend releasing your updates
under a new name.</p>
<p>We don't really have the ability to judge the wishes of previous
maintainers of projects, and so in all but the most extreme cases,
the only way to get added to a project is with approval from an
existing maintainer.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p></div>Gregory Brown